Interesting read. I particularly liked the bits about an Open
Statistics effort (I wonder if that would include Smolt) and when he
plead for people to look beyond the Microsoft Covenant and see their
contributions. I especially am thankful to Novell for the
contributions made by some of their programmers (Xorg programmers)
and AMD for providing high quality totally open and free drivers for
AMD hardware, particularly graphics cards, with the radeonHD X11 driver.

FYI, I have mailed him about Smolt (As I have done previously to many
SUSE folks) and got a positive response. Let em followup and see if we
can take this forward.

Rahul

Awesome, Rahul! That's actually *very* nice to hear... I'm sure that if
more consolidated data is gathered in terms of *real* usage numbers of
Linux (along with what type of hardware is it being deployed) is a step
in the right direction towards really accounting the ancient question
"Who is using Linux, and how many users are there?". Especially useful
for companies like Novell and Red Hat, I'm sure, but also for the
desktop users, as this might trigger more availability to the platform
of software that has no open source alternatives or cannot have an
alternative (scientific, media, gaming), for the general public, plus
the fact that Linux distributions are (at a long last!) getting to the
point where standards are actually being followed and the conundrum that
once was deploying applications is quickly being a thing of the past.
Hopefully with support from other vendors as well as individuals, this
will truly be a thing of the past.

Go, go Linux, and go go Fedora, for being a true proponent and leading
distribution for Linux improvement, not only at the application level,
but at the *social* level.